Overview

• Federal Election Commission records show the party has paid about $20.5 million in post-election obligations tied to Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign.
• Four people described a handshake agreement under which the party covered outstanding bills while Harris would raise funds to reimburse it, and the party kept a ledger to track the balance.
• Disclosures list multiple six-figure payments to pollsters, printers, consultants, charter airlines and event producers, including roughly $3.5 million to Freeman and a recent $498,287.30 payment to Howard University.
• Nearly 100 fundraising emails sent from Harris’s operation on the party’s behalf this year did not tell small donors that proceeds were effectively directed to leftover campaign bills.
• The committee’s cash on hand fell from $22.1 million entering 2025 to $13.9 million at July’s end, a decline linked in part to covering these invoices.